******************************************************************************************************************************************* The Jacobin Enlightenment, by Doug Greene and Harrison Fluss Jacobinism was not a betrayal of the Radical Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It was a historically necessary effort to defend both.
******************************************************************************************************************************************* ----------------------------------------------- *The Idealist History of the French Revolution* ----------------------------------------------- When it comes to the French Revolution, Jonathan Israel sees ideas and not material factors as its primary cause. In Revolutionary Ideas , he states that the revolution’s “fundamental cause” was the Radical Enlightenment itself: “Radical Enlightenment was incontrovertibly the one ‘big’ cause of the French Revolution. It was the sole fundamental cause because politically, philosophically, and logically it inspired and equipped the leadership of the authentic Revolution.” 1 (More at: ************************************************************************************************************************** https://www.leftvoice.org/the-jacobin-enlightenment?fbclid=IwAR0eMMtp2dFy7Uzcau4WLj7Kc61U2RFHjCvWxkedbSXVzl6_Ebo0JFSls9o ) ************************************************************************************************************************** Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#249): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/249 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76087221/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
